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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves

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Alvin and the Chipmunks
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Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks or simply The Chipmunks, is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. for a novelty record in 1958. The trio is managed by their adoptive father, David Seville. In reality, David Seville was Bagdasarians stage name, and the Chipmunks themselves are named after the executives of their record label. The characters became a success, and the singing Chipmunks and their manager were given life in animated cartoon productions, using redrawn, anthropomorphic chipmunks. The voices of the group were all performed by Bagdasarian, who sped up the playback to create high-pitched voices, Bagdasarian, performing as the Chipmunks, released a long line of albums and singles, with The Chipmunk Song becoming a number-one single in the United States. After the death of Bagdasarian in 1972, the voices were performed by his son Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. In the 2007 CGI/live-action film adaptation and its 2009 sequel, they were voiced in dialogue by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Bagdasarian, Jr. and Karman continue to perform the singing voices for Alvin, Theodore and the Chipettes, but Steve Vining does Simons singing voice. The project has earned five Grammy awards, an American Music Award, a Golden Reel Award, a third film installment, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chipwrecked, was released in theaters on December 16,2011. Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprises announced a fourth installment, titled Alvin, a CGI-animated TV series revival, titled ALVINNN. and the Chipmunks, premiered on Nickelodeon on August 3,2015. In 1958, Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. released a novelty song about being unsuccessful at love until he found a doctor who told him how to woo his woman. The words themselves are nonsense, Oo-ee, oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, walla-walla, the song was a hit, holding number one for three weeks in the Billboard Top 100 chart. Nothing makes any reference to chipmunks, but the song is included on Chipmunk compilations. Bagdasarian did record a Chipmunks version of Witch Doctor, which appeared on the second Chipmunks album, Sing Again with the Chipmunks, Bagdasarian performed the song live on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bagdasarian recorded a song, The Bird on My Head. It also reached the Top 40, peaking at No.34, the technique was imitated by Sheb Wooleys Purple People Eater and The Big Boppers The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor. The Chipmunks first officially appeared on the scene in a novelty record released in late fall 1958 by Bagdasarian, the song, originally listed on the record label as The Chipmunk Song, featured the singing skills of the chipmunk trio. One phrase in the chorus has Alvin wishing for a hula hoop, the novelty record was highly successful, selling more than 4 million copies in seven weeks, and it launched the careers of its chipmunk stars. It spent four weeks at Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from December 22,1958 to January 12,1959 and it also earned three Grammy Awards and a nomination for Record of the Year

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Liberty Records
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Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and it was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals. Libertys early releases focused on film and orchestral music and its first single was Lionel Newmans The Girl Upstairs. Its first big hit, in 1955, was by Julie London singing her version of the song, Cry Me a River. It helped Liberty sell her first album, Julie Is Her Name and she was to record 32 albums in her career. In 1956 Liberty signed the little-known Henry Mancini and they released two singles and several albums for him, but he left in 1959 when he gained in popularity. Billy Rose and Lee Davids song, Tonight You Belong to Me, scored a number 4 and number 28 as performed by teen sisters Patience and Prudence and their biggest early rock and roll artist was Eddie Cochran, who had just starred in his second film, Untamed Youth. His first hit for the label was John D. Loudermilks Sittin in the Balcony in 1957, then came Summertime Blues, the label was also home to R&B veterans Billy Ward and His Dominoes after Jackie Wilson quit, replacing him with ex-Lark Eugene Mumford. They hit with Hoagy Carmichaels 1927 song, Stardust – already recorded by many artists – which rode the pop chart for 24 weeks, the track also reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in October 1957. It was to be their only million seller, the song became a number 1 hit and rescued the company. In just a few months leading up to Christmas in 1958 and it became the only Christmas record to reach number 1 on the pop chart, selling 4.5 million copies. Its success led to a string of similar albums by Denny for Liberty over the next decade. In 1965 Liberty acquired Pacific Jazz Records, founded in 1952, in 1958 Liberty formed a sublabel called Freedom Records which lasted through 1959. In 1959 Liberty moved to its long-time address at 6920 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Libertys most successful signing of the early 1960s was Bobby Vee. They picked up his single recorded for Soma with his combo the Shadows, Suzie Baby and he covered the Clovers 1955 doo-wop ballad, Devil or Angel in mid-1960 and later that year recorded Gene Pitneys Rubber Ball which made him an international star. In the summer of 1961 Vee had a big hit with Take Good Care of My Baby and he regularly had Hot 100 hits until 1970. Other major signings included Willie Nelson, Jan and Dean, Johnny Burnette, Gene McDaniels, Del Shannon, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Timi Yuro, in 1963 the Liberty Records label was sold to Avnet for $12 million. Avnet also bought Blue Note Records, Imperial Records, Dolton Records, Aladdin Records, after two years of losses, Avnet sold the labels back to Al Bennett for $8 million

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s

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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website

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Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
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Rostom Sipan Ross Bagdasarian, otherwise known by his stage name David Seville, was an American pianist, musician, actor, voice actor, and record producer of Armenian descent. Bagdasarian was the creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks and the founder of Bagdasarian Productions, Bagdasarian was born in Fresno, California, the youngest child of Dick and Virginia Bagdasarian, Armenian immigrants from the Ottoman Empire. He enlisted in the United States Army one month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Bagdasarian performed in the Broadway cast of The Time of Your Life, written by his famous cousin William Saroyan. Bagdasarians first musical success was the song that he wrote with Saroyan Come on-a My House, the lyrics are based on dialogue from Saroyans novel The Human Comedy. Bagdasarian played minor roles in films, the best known of which is his appearance in Alfred Hitchcocks 1954 murder mystery Rear Window, Bagdasarian portrays a piano-playing songwriter who composes, plays, and sings the song Lisa. His character lives in an apartment opposite the protagonists, in keeping with the screenplays theme of social voyeurism, his dialogue is never clearly heard and he appears only in long shots, sometimes seen through a window. He stands next to Hitchcock in his cameo appearance. Bagdasarian had small parts in The Greatest Show on Earth, Viva Zapata, destination Gobi, Stalag 17, Alaska Seas, The Proud and Profane, Three Violent People, Hot Blood, The Deep Six, and The Devils Hairpin. In 1956, Bagdasarian had a hit as Alfi and Harry with a novelty record The Trouble with Harry. He wrote The Ballad of Colin Black, a song to The Proud. According to Ross Bagdasarian Jr. his father was down to his last $200 when he spent $190 on a V-M tape recorder that would let him vary the tape speed and he followed this with The Bird on My Head, which barely made the Top 40. Then for the 1958 Christmas season came The Chipmunk Song with the Chipmunks, Bagdasarian named the three Chipmunk characters after record executives, Simon Waronker, Ted Keep, and Alvin Bennett. Most consumer tape recorders of the day had changeable speeds, but usually only in simple binary multiples, doubling or halving the speed, changing speeds of voices in these limited multiples creates extremely high or low pitches that sound too extreme for most purposes. The first Chipmunk record, The Chipmunk Song, had Bagdasarian doing all the voices, after the success of The Chipmunk Song, a series of follow-up hit singles were quickly released, also on Liberty Records. Alvins Harmonica was the second, Ragtime Cowboy Joe the third, albums continued this trend, the first album being released on red vinyl, successfully continuing well into the 60s with an album of the Chipmunks singing various early hits of the Beatles in 1964. Other trick-recording producers tried to imitate Sevilles Chipmunks, with embarrassing results. A failed novelty single by Shirley and Squirrelly is a good example, following his hit records, Bagdasarian provided the voice for David Seville and Alvin in the Chipmunks short-lived 1961–62 animated television series The Alvin Show. The Chipmunks recordings had the performers often labeled as David Seville and the Chipmunks, bagdasarians last album was The Chipmunks Go to the Movies, released in 1969, almost three years before his death

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Tom Jones (singer)
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Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE is a Welsh singer known by his stage name Tom Jones. Joness powerful voice has been described as a full-throated, robust baritone and his performing range has included pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul and gospel. In 2008, the New York Times called Jones a musical shape shifter, who could slide from soulful rasp to pop croon, with a voice as husky as it was pretty. Jones received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989, Jones was awarded an OBE in 1999 and in 2006 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music. Jones was born Thomas John Woodward, at 57 Kingsland Terrace, Treforest, Pontypridd, in Glamorgan and his parents were Thomas Woodward, a coal miner, and Freda Jones. His maternal grandfather, Albert Jones, was Welsh, and his grandmother, Ada Jones, was born in Pontypridd, to parents from Somerset. Jones attended Wood Road Infants School, Wood Road Junior School and he began singing at an early age, He would regularly sing at family gatherings, weddings and in his school choir. Jones did not like school or sports, but gained confidence through his singing talent, at 12 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Many years later he said, I spent two years in bed recovering and it was the worst time of my life. During convalescence he could do little else but listen to music, Joness bluesy singing style developed out of the sound of American soul music. His early influences included blues and R&B singers Little Richard, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Brook Benton, as well as Elvis Presley, in March 1957 Jones married his high school girlfriend, Linda Trenchard when they were expecting a child together, both aged 16. The couples son, Mark, was born in the month following their wedding, to support his young family Jones took a job working in a glove factory and was later employed in construction. Joness voice has been described as a full-throated, robust baritone and he became the frontman in 1963 for Tommy Scott and the Senators, a Welsh beat group. They soon gained a following and reputation in South Wales. In 1964, the group recorded several tracks with producer Joe Meek, who took them to various labels. Later that year, Decca producer Peter Sullivan saw Tommy Scott and the Senators performing in a club and directed them to manager Phil Solomon, the group continued to play gigs at dance halls and working mens clubs in South Wales. One night at the Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Wales, Jones was spotted by Gordon Mills, Mills became Joness manager and took the young singer to London, and also renamed him Tom Jones, to exploit the popularity of the Academy Award-winning 1963 film. Eventually, Mills got Jones a recording contract with Decca and his first single, Chills and Fever, was released in late 1964

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Gary Lewis & the Playboys
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Gary Lewis & the Playboys were an American 1960s era pop and rock group, fronted by musician Gary Lewis, the son of comedian Jerry Lewis. They are best known for their 1965 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single This Diamond Ring, the band had an earnest, boy-next-door image similar to British invasion contemporaries such as Hermans Hermits and Gerry and the Pacemakers. The group folded in 1970, but a version of the band resumed touring and continues to tour. The group began life as Gary & the Playboys, Gary Lewis started the band with four friends of his when he was 18. Joking at the lateness of his bandmates to practice, Lewis referred to them as playboys, and they auditioned for a job at Disneyland, without telling Disneyland employees about Lewis celebrity father. They were hired on the spot, audiences at Disneyland quickly accepted them, the orchestra bandleader Les Brown, who had known Jerry Lewis for years, had told record producer Snuff Garrett that the younger Lewis was playing at Disneyland. After listening to the band, Garrett thought using Garys famous name might sell more records, Garrett brought them to a recording studio with the song This Diamond Ring in a session financed by Jerry Lewis wife Patti. However, according to Lewis, the Playboys were not allowed to play their instruments except on the backing tracks. These musicians included Mike Deasy and Tommy Allsup on guitars, Leon Russell on keyboards, Joe Osborn on bass, session singer Ron Hicklin did the basic vocal track. Garrett then added Lewis’s voice twice, added some of the Playboys, when I got through, he sounded like Mario Lanza, Garrett commented. Garrett then had Jerry Lewis use his contacts to get his son onto The Ed Sullivan Show, however, Sullivan had a general policy that all acts appearing on his show were to perform live. Since so many studio tricks had been used on the record, in compromise, Lewis sang along with pre-recorded tracks as the Playboys pretended to play their instruments. The January 1965 broadcast made Gary Lewis and the Playboys instant stars and this Diamond Ring went to #1, sold over one million copies by April 1965, and became a gold disc. However, by the end of 1965 only West and Lewis remained in the band, other later band members included Tommy Tripplehorn, Carl Radle, Jimmy Karstein, Randy Ruff, Pete Vrains, Bob Simpson, Adolph Zeugner, Les John, Wayne Bruno, and Dave Gonzalez. In 1965, Gary Lewis was Cash Box magazines Male Vocalist of the Year, winning against nominees Elvis Presley, the group was one of only two acts during the 1960s whose first seven releases on the Billboard Hot 100 reached that charts top 10. The singles were This Diamond Ring, Count Me In, Save Your Heart for Me, Everybody Loves a Clown, Shes Just My Style, Sure Gonna Miss Her, and Green Grass. Lewis was drafted into the U. S. Army in January 1967, with previously made recordings continuing to reach the Hot 100, Lewis continued touring, eventually marketing the band as a nostalgia act. He also appeared and performed on many of his fathers Labor Day telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, in all, Lewis had eight gold singles, twelve Top 40 hit singles, and four gold albums

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Mr. Tambourine Man
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Mr. Tambourine Man is a song written, composed, and performed by Bob Dylan, who released his original version of it on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. This song has performed and recorded by many artists, including Judy Collins, Odetta, Melanie. The songs popularity led to Dylan recording it live many times and it has been translated into other languages, and has been used or referenced in television shows, films and books. The lyrics call on the character to play a song. Interpretations of the lyrics have included a paean to drugs such as LSD, a call to the muse, a reflection of the audiences demands on the singer. Dylans song has four verses, of which The Byrds only used the second for their recording, Dylans and The Byrds versions have appeared on various lists ranking the greatest songs of all time, including an appearance by both on Rolling Stones list of the 500 best songs ever. Both versions also received Grammy Hall of Fame Awards, Mr. Tambourine Man was written and composed in early 1964, at the same approximate time as Chimes of Freedom, which Dylan recorded later that spring for his album Another Side of Bob Dylan. Journalist Al Aronowitz has claimed that Dylan completed the song at his home, but folk singer Judy Collins, Dylan premiered the song the following month at a May 17 concert at Londons Royal Festival Hall. Dylan first recorded Mr. Tambourine Man a few later, on June 9. The take, recorded with Ramblin Jack Elliott, was cut from the album because Dylan felt the song was special, sometime that month he also recorded a publisher demo of the song at Witmark Music. It was long thought that the four songs were recorded in one long take. The final take was selected for the album, which was released on March 22,1965, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, Im not sleepy and there is no place Im going to. Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, In the jingle-jangle morning Ill come following you, still unable to sleep, though amazed by his weariness, he is available and open to Mr. Tambourine Mans song, and says he will follow him. Though he was using marijuana at the time the song was written, other commentators have interpreted the song as a call to the singers spirit or muse, or the singers search for transcendence. Mr. Tambourine Man has also interpreted as a symbol for Jesus Christ. The song may also reference gospel music, with Mr. Tambourine Man being the bringer of religious salvation, Dylan has cited the influence of Federico Fellinis movie La Strada on the song, while other commentators have found echoes of the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud. Author Howard Sounes has identified the lyrics in the jingle jangle morning Ill come following you as having taken from a Lord Buckley recording. Bruce Langhorne, who performs guitar on the track, has cited by Dylan as the inspiration for the tambourine man image in the song

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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, painter, and writer. He has been influential in music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest, early songs such as Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival, his six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone, recorded in 1965, Dylans lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture, initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica, backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, since 1994, Dylan has published seven books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a musician, Dylan has sold more than 100 million records and he has also received numerous awards including eleven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture. In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in St. Marys Hospital on May 24,1941, in Duluth, Minnesota and he has a younger brother, David. Dylans paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire and his maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. Dylans father, Abram Zimmerman – an electric-appliance shop owner – and mother, Beatrice Beatty Stone, were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community. They lived in Duluth until Robert was six, when his father had polio and the returned to his mothers hometown, Hibbing. In his early years he listened to the radio—first to blues and country stations from Shreveport, Louisiana, and later and he formed several bands while attending Hibbing High School. In the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard and their performance of Danny & the Juniors Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the microphone. In 1959, his high school yearbook carried the caption Robert Zimmerman, the same year, as Elston Gunnn, he performed two dates with Bobby Vee, playing piano and clapping

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The Byrds
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The Byrds /ˈbɜːrdz/ were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member. Initially, they pioneered the genre of folk rock, melding the influence of the Beatles and other British Invasion bands with contemporary. As the 1960s progressed, the band was influential in originating psychedelic rock, raga rock. The bands signature blend of clear harmony singing and McGuinns jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar has continued to be influential on popular music up to the present day, among the bands most enduring songs are their cover versions of Bob Dylans Mr. Tambourine Man and Pete Seegers Turn. Turn. along with the originals, Ill Feel a Whole Lot Better, Eight Miles High, So You Want to Be a Rock n Roll Star, Ballad of Easy Rider. The original five-piece lineup of the Byrds consisted of Jim McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke. However, this version of the band was relatively short-lived and by early 1966, Clark had left due to associated with anxiety. The Byrds continued as a quartet until late 1967, when Crosby, McGuinn and Hillman decided to recruit new members, including country rock pioneer Gram Parsons, but by late 1968, Hillman and Parsons had also exited the band. McGuinn disbanded the current lineup in early 1973, to make way for a reunion of the original quintet. The Byrds final album was released in March 1973, with the group disbanding soon afterwards. In the late 1980s, Gene Clark and Michael Clarke both began touring as the Byrds, prompting a legal challenge from McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman over the rights to the bands name. As a result of this, McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman performed a series of concerts as the Byrds in 1989 and 1990. In January 1991, the Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman still remain active but Gene Clark died of a heart attack in May 1991, and Michael Clarke died of liver failure in December 1993. The nucleus of the Byrds formed in early 1964, when Jim McGuinn, Gene Clark, All three musicians had a background rooted in folk music, with each one having worked as a folk singer on the acoustic coffeehouse circuit during the early 1960s. McGuinn had also spent time as a songwriter at the Brill Building in New York City. By early 1964, McGuinn had become enamored with the music of the Beatles, soon after, David Crosby introduced himself to the duo at The Troubadour and began harmonizing with them on some of their songs. Impressed by the blend of their voices, the three formed a trio and named themselves the Jet Set, a moniker inspired by McGuinns love of aeronautics

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Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
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Mrs. Brown, Youve Got a Lovely Daughter is a popular song written by British actor, screenwriter and songwriter Trevor Peacock. It was originally sung by actor Tom Courtenay in The Lads, a British TV play of 1963, and released as a single on UK Decca. The best-known version of the song is by Hermans Hermits, who took it to one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in May 1965. The single debuted on the Hot 100 at number 12 — the third highest debut of the decade, the Hermits never released the track — or their other US1965 number one, Im Henry VIII, I Am — as a single in their native Britain. The band never dreamed it would be a single let alone hit number one in the US. According to Noone the song was known to British bands, it would often be performed at birthday parties, substituting the surname of the girl whose party was being celebrated. Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Jones instead of Mrs. Brown, alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1965 album Chipmunks à Go-Go. The song was released in Japan on Odeon Records, a subsidiary of Toshiba and it was backed by the song Wonderful World. It was covered by Nellie McKay on her 2015 album My Weekly Reader

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Herman's Hermits
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Hermans Hermits are an English beat rock band, formed in Manchester in 1964. Originally called Herman & The Hermits, they were discovered by Harvey Lisberg, Lisberg sent a return plane ticket to Mickie Most so that he could come up from London to see the band play in Bolton. Most became the record producer, controlling the bands output. He emphasised a simple, non-threatening, clean-cut image, although the band originally played R&B numbers and this helped Hermans Hermits become hugely successful in the mid-1960s. Their first hit was a cover of Earl-Jeans Im into Something Good and they never topped the British charts again, but had two US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s with Mrs. Brown, Youve Got a Lovely Daughter and Im Henry the Eighth, I Am. These songs were aimed at a US fan base, with Noone exaggerating his Mancunian accent, in the US, their records were released on the MGM label, a company which often featured musical performers they had signed to record deals in films. The Hermits appeared in several MGM movies, including When the Boys Meet the Girls and they also starred in the film Mrs. Brown Youve Got a Lovely Daughter and appeared in the 1965 anthology film Pop Gear. Hermans Hermits had four Top 3 hits in the US in 1965, with the aforementioned No.1 hits, the group appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show and The Jackie Gleason Show. By the time the group recorded their album of the 1960s, Rock n Roll Party, the bands success in the US was history. Peter Noone left the band in 1971, a later lineup with lead guitarist Derek Leckenby and drummer Barry Whitwam as the remaining original members opened for The Monkees on their 80s reunion tours of the US. The band still continues to today, with Whitwam as the only remaining member from the original lineup Hermans Hermits was formed from two different local bands. Keith Hopwood, Karl Green, Alan Wrigley, Steve Titterington, the second-youngest member of a young group, 15-year-old Noone was already an experienced actor on the popular British TV soap opera, Coronation Street. Derek Lek Leckenby and Barry Whitwam joined later from another local group, Whitwam replaced Titterington on drums, Green switched to bass guitar, and Leckenby took over for Green as lead guitarist. After Leckenby joined the band, the made a deal with producer Mickie Most and signed with EMIs Columbia label in Europe. The bands name came from a resemblance, noted by a publican in Manchester, England, Sherman was shortened to Herman, and then became Herman and his Hermits, which was soon shortened to Hermans Hermits. Leckenby soloed on Henry, and Hopwood played rhythm guitar on Mrs. Brown, Mickie Most used session musicians on many records he produced — this was industry practice at the time. Even such respected groups as The Yardbirds were required by Most to use musicians on their Most-produced recordings. Mickie Most commented on the VH1 My Generation, Hermans Hermits episode that the Hermits played on a lot of their records, and some they didnt

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Dino, Desi & Billy
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Dino, Desi & Billy was a singing group that existed between 1964 and 1969. The group featured Dean Dino Martin, Desi Arnaz, Jr. a reconstituted version of the group performed between 1998 and 2010. Dino Martin, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinsche first met in grammar school, due to the family connections of Dino and Desi, the bands first audition was for Frank Sinatra, who owned Reprise Records, the recording label for Dean Martin. On most of their records, they did not play their own instruments, producers included Lee Hazlewood, Billy Strange and Jimmy Bowen. Songwriters whose compositions were recorded by the group included Lee Hazlewood, David Gates, Boyce and Hart, Clint Ballard, Jr. Dino, Desi & Billys best known songs were Im a Fool and Not the Lovin Kind. Both were hits for the group before any member had reached the age of 15. Following this success, they toured as an act for the Beach Boys in 1965. The group also opened for Paul Revere & the Raiders, Tommy Roe, Sam the Sham, the band did not have a top 40 hit after 1965, despite releasing records for five years thereafter. The group released one album in 1965 and three albums in 1966, Dino, Desi & Billy albums contained primarily version of Top 40 songs made popular by others, with new content being minor. The three boys make an appearance in the Dean Martin film Murderers Row and sing the Boyce & Hart song, from 1966 to 1970, the group continued to release singles, encountering marginal success, which was not altered by a change of label to Columbia Records in 1969. Also in 1969, the group contributed three songs to the soundtrack of the surf film Follow Me, the group received top billing on the soundtrack album, despite the fact that most of the album featured music by composer Stu Phillips. Later in 1969, the broke up, due in part to Desi joining his mothers television show. The group was never a favorite of the critics, music critic Richie Unterberger recently characterized the band on Allmusic. com as a group that never had an ounce of credibility, with music that was innocuously bland in the extreme. That single was released by Reprise Records in 1970, after the group had broken up, hinsches sister, Annie, married Carl Wilson and Hinsche himself worked with the Beach Boys as a backing musician for many years. Dean Paul Martin became a player, actor and a captain in the California Air National Guard. He was married to actress Olivia Hussey and figure skater Dorothy Hamill, and was killed while piloting a military jet in 1987. In 1996, Sundazed Records released The Rebel Kind, The Best of Dino, Desi & Billy, in all of the groups singles. From 1998 to 2010, a reconfiguration of the group, known as Ricci, Desi, & Billy, performed at various times, in addition to releasing two live albums

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Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows
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Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows is a popular song sung by Lesley Gore. It was originally released on Gores 1963 album Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts, the song, composed by Marvin Hamlisch, was released as a single in conjunction with Gores rendition in the 1965 film, Ski Party. It was arranged by Claus Ogerman and produced by Quincy Jones, the tune peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The songs movie debut was in the 1965 film, Ski Party, tord, a character from Eddsworld, has a particular hate for this song. It was used in the 2009 film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1965 album, Chipmunks à Go-Go. Dusty Springfield never recorded the song for an album, but performed it once on TV, the song appeared in The Simpsons episode, Marge on the Lam. The song played over the credits of Mad Men episode 2.3

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Roger Miller
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Roger Dean Miller, Sr. was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, best known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping country/pop hits King of the Road, Dang Me and he also wrote and performed several of the songs for the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood. Later in his life, he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony-award winning Broadway musical Big River, Miller died from lung cancer in 1992, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame three years later. The Roger Miller Museum in his town of Erick, Oklahoma, is a tribute to Miller. Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Jean. Jean Miller died from spinal meningitis when Roger was a year old, unable to support the family during the Great Depression, Laudene sent her three sons to live with three of Jeans brothers. Thus, Roger grew up on a farm outside Erick, Oklahoma with Elmer, as a boy, Miller did farm work, such as picking cotton and plowing. He would later say he was poor and that as late as 1951 the family did not own a telephone. He received his education at a one-room schoolhouse. Miller was a child, and would often daydream or compose songs. One of his earliest compositions went, Theres a picture on the wall and its the dearest of them all, Mother. Miller was a member of the National FFA Organization in high school and he listened to the Grand Ole Opry and Light Crust Doughboys on a Fort Worth station with his cousins husband, Sheb Wooley. Wooley taught Miller his first guitar chords and bought him a fiddle, Wooley, Hank Williams, and Bob Wills were the influences that led to Millers desire to be a singer-songwriter. He began to run away and perform in Oklahoma and Texas, at 17, he stole a guitar out of desperation to write songs, however, he turned himself in the next day. He chose to enlist in the United States Army to avoid jail and he later quipped, My education was Korea, Clash of 52. Near the end of his service, while stationed in Atlanta, Georgia, Miller played fiddle in the Circle A Wranglers. While Miller was stationed in South Carolina, an army sergeant whose brother was Kenneth C, Jethro Burns from the musical duo Homer and Jethro, persuaded him to head to Nashville after his discharge. On leaving the Army, Miller traveled to Nashville to begin his musical career and he met with Chet Atkins, who asked to hear him sing, loaning him a guitar since Miller did not own one

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Downtown (Petula Clark song)
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Downtown is a song composed by Tony Hatch which, as recorded by Petula Clark in 1964, became an international hit, reaching No.1 in Billboard Hot 100 and No.2 in UK Singles Chart. Hatch received the 1981 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, the song has been covered by many singers, including Dolly Parton and Emma Bunton. Tony Hatch had first worked with Petula Clark when he assisted her regular producer Alan A. Freeman on her 1961 #1 hit Sailor. In 1963 Freeman had asked Hatch to take over as Clarks regular producer, in the autumn of 1964 Hatch had made his first visit to New York City, the purpose being to seek material from music publishers for the artists he was producing. Hatch would recall, I was staying at a hotel on Central Park and I wandered down to Broadway and to Times Square and, naively, forgetting that in New York especially, downtown is a lot further downtown getting on towards Battery Park. I loved the atmosphere there and the came to me very, very quickly. According to Hatch he was standing on the corner of 48th St waiting for the lights to change, looking towards Times Square when the melody first came to me. Hatch said of the meeting, she was not very enthusiastic about, Clark, who first heard Downtown from her kitchen having stepped away to make a pot of tea, told Hatch, Thats the one I want to record – Get that finished. Get a great arrangement and I think we’ll at least have a song we’re proud to record if it isn’t a hit. Downtown was recorded 16 October 1964 at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch, thirty minutes before the session was scheduled, Hatch was still touching up the songs lyrics in the studios washroom. Hatchs assistant Bob Leaper acted as conductor, according to Petula Clark, the session for Downtown consisted of three takes with the second take ultimately chosen as the completed track. Tony Hatch would recall playing the completed Downtown track for Pye Records executives saying, Nobody knew what to make of it, then Pyes general manager called and said Joe Smith – Warner Bros. head of A&R – was in London looking for British material. When Joe heard Pets record, he loved it and scheduled the single for urgent release in the States, when Hatch, surprised by Smiths enthusiasm for releasing Downtown in the US, asked if Smith didnt consider Downtown to be a very English record Smith replied, Its perfect. Its just an observation from outside of America and its just beautiful, in the wake of Smiths interest Downtown was released in the UK in November 1964. Downtown rose to No.2 UK in December 1964, remaining there for three weeks, kept out of the #1 position by the Beatles I Feel Fine, Downtown debuted at #87 on the Hot 100 chart in the Billboard issue dated 19 December 1964. The song became the first #1 hit for the year 1965, Downtown also made Clark the first UK female artist to have a single certified as a Gold record for US sales of one million units. In addition, the original 1964 recording was remixed and released in 1988 as Downtown 88, a Top Ten UK hit, Clark would recall, The first time I heard the 88 remix of Downtown I was in my car. And it turned out to be me, theyd wiped out the orchestra and put on some kind of ticka-ticka-tick thing

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Petula Clark
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Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress and composer whose career has spanned seven decades. Clarks professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II and she has sold more than 68 million records. Clark was born to Doris and Leslie Norman Clark in Epsom, Surrey, both of her parents were nurses there at Long Grove Hospital. Her mother was of Welsh ancestry and her father was English, young Sallys stage name of Petula was invented by her father, Leslie Clark, he joked it was a combination of the names of two former girlfriends, Pet and Ulla. During the war Clark lived with her sister at the home of their grandparents in South Wales, in a stone house with no electricity, no running water. Her grandparents spoke little English and Clark learned to speak Welsh and her grandfather was a coal miner. Her first ever live audience was at the Colliers Arms in Abercanaid, as a child Clark sang in the chapel choir and showed a talent for mimicry, impersonating Vera Lynn, Carmen Miranda and Sophie Tucker for her family and friends. I wanted to be Ingrid Bergman more than anything else in the world, from a chance beginning at age 9, Clark would appear on radio, film, print, television and recordings by the time she turned 17. In October 1942, the 9-year-old Clark made her debut while attending a BBC broadcast with her father. She was there trying to send a message to an uncle stationed overseas, during the bombing, the producer requested that someone perform to settle the jittery theatre audience, and she volunteered a rendering of Mighty Lak a Rose to an enthusiastic response. She then repeated her performance for the broadcast audience, launching a series of some 500 appearances in programmes designed to entertain the troops, in addition to radio work, Clark frequently toured the United Kingdom with fellow child performer Julie Andrews. Nicknamed the Singing Sweetheart, she performed for George VI, Winston Churchill, Clark also became known as Britains Shirley Temple and was considered a mascot by the British Army, whose troops plastered her photos on their tanks for good luck as they advanced into battle. While performing at Londons Royal Albert Hall in 1944, Clark was discovered by film director Maurice Elvey, in quick succession, she performed in Strawberry Roan, I Know Where Im Going. London Town, Here Come the Huggetts, Vote for Huggett and The Huggetts Abroad, which is a Powell and Pressburger feature film now generally regarded as a masterpiece. In 1945, Clark was featured in the comic Radio Fun, Clark felt that she played child parts for too long. In 1946, Clark launched her career with an appearance on a BBC variety show, Cabaret Cartoons. In 1947, Clark met Joe Mr Piano Henderson at the Maurice Publishing Company, the two collaborated musically and were linked romantically over the coming decade. In 1949 Henderson introduced Clark to Alan A. Freeman who, together with her father Leslie, Clark had recorded her first release that year, Put Your Shoes On, Lucy, for EMI

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California Girls
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California Girls is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band the Beach Boys, featured on their 1965 album Summer Days. Wilson conceived the song during his first acid trip, later arranging and producing the songs recording, upon its release as a single, California Girls reached No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was backed with Let Him Run Wild, another track from Summer Days, the song is considered emblematic of the 1960s California Sound. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it as one of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock, in 2010, the Beach Boys recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No.72 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the music came from Brian Wilsons first psychedelic experience. He was quoted saying in 1986, something Im very proud of in a sense because it represents the Beach Boys really greatest record production we’ve ever made. It goes back to 1965 when I was sitting in my apartment, wondering how to write a song about girls and he added in 2007, I was thinking about the music from cowboy movies. And I sat down and started playing it, bum-buhdeeda, bum-buhdeeda, I did that for about an hour. Then I got this melody, it pretty fast after that. Inspiration came from the rhythm of Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring, in 2015, he explained, California Girls had that beat — its called a shuffle beat — and thats definitely a Bach influence. The next day, he and Mike Love finished off the remainder of the song, Love was not originally listed as the songs co-writer, but his successful 1994 lawsuit for songwriting credits amended the alleged omission. Bassist Carol Kaye credits almost every note to Brian, with the exception being a fill she invented at the end of the bridge section. California Girls begins with a prelude which biographer Peter Ames Carlin called as spare. It was advised against by Brians father, Murry Wilson, who felt it made the song excessively complex, Music theorist Daniel Harrison compared the song to a later Brian Wilson composition, God Only Knows, as it both avoids a root-position tonic and suppresses a cadential drive. Musicologist Walter Everett identifies the use of ♭VII — IV in the chorus to suggest a major key with minor pentatonic inflections. The refrain alternates between the I and ii7 without ever resolving to the expected V, during this, the relationship between the music and text is reflected in the lyric I wish they all could be California girls, an ideal which is also impossible to resolve. The track was produced by Wilson, who intended to encapsulate the feel of the Drifters version of On Broadway, the instrumental was made on April 6,1965 at United Western Recorders, requiring 44 takes before Wilson could deem a satisfactory performance. Problems had arisen from the tempo and guitar part in the introduction, which fatigued Wilson, engineer Chuck Britz, and the dozen-plus session players

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The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The groups original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The Beach Boys began as a band managed by the Wilsons father Murry. Emerging at the vanguard of the California Sound, they performed material that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars. After 1964, they abandoned the surfing aesthetic for more personal lyrics, in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and Good Vibrations single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following Smiles dissolution, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The continued success of their greatest hits albums during the mid 1970s precipitated the transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits, Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carls death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love, Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnstons band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Inc. The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, the group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits, four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They received their only Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions, the core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. At the time of his birthday on June 20,1958, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl – aged thirteen and eleven. He had watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano, after dissecting songs such as Ivory Tower and Good News, Brian would teach family members how to sing the background harmonies. For his birthday that year, Brian received a tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl, Brian played piano with Carl and David Marks, an eleven-year-old longtime neighbor, playing guitars they had each received as Christmas presents. Soon Brian and Carl were avidly listening to Johnny Otis KFOX radio show, inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, Brian changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his studies at school. Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love, Brian taught Loves sister Maureen and a friend harmonies

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Dobie Gray
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Dobie Gray was an American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop, and musical theater. His hit records included The In Crowd in 1965 and Drift Away, which was one of the biggest hits of 1973, sold one million copies. He was born near Houston, Texas and his birth name was most likely Lawrence Darrow Brown, listed in Fort Bend County birth records as being born in 1940 to Jane and Jethro C. Brown. Other sources suggest he may have been born Leonard Victor Ainsworth and he discovered gospel music through his grandfather, a Baptist minister. In the early 1960s he moved to Los Angeles, intending to pursue a career while also singing to make money. He recorded for local labels under the names Leonard Ainsworth, Larry Curtis. They suggested that he record under the name Dobie Gray, an allusion to the then-popular sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. His first taste of success came in 1963 when his seventh single Look At Me, on the Cor-Dak label and recorded with bassist Carol Kaye, however, his first album, Look. failed to sell. Greater success came in early 1965 when his recording of The In Crowd reached #13. Written by Billy Page and arranged by his brother, Gene and produced by Fred Darian, Grays record reached #11 on the US R&B chart, and #25 in the UK. Gray continued to record, though with little success, for labels such as Charger and White Whale. He also spent several years working as an actor, including 2½ years in the Los Angeles production of Hair, in 1970, while working there, he joined a band, Pollution, as singer and percussionist. They were managed by actor Max Baer Jr. and released two albums of soul-inspired psychedelic rock, Pollution I and Pollution II, the band included singer Tata Vega and guitarist/singer James Quill Smith. He also worked at A&M Records on demo recordings with songwriter Paul Williams, in 1972, he won a recording contract with Decca Records to make an album with producer Mentor Williams -- Pauls brother -- in Nashville. Among the songs recorded at the Quadrafonic Sound Studios, co-owned by session musicians Norbert Putnam and David Briggs, was Mentor Williams Drift Away. Released as a single, the rose to #5 on the US pop chart. It placed at #17 in the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1973, sold one million copies. The follow-up, a version of Tom Jans much-covered song Loving Arms, in the mid-1970s, he moved permanently to Nashville and signed for Capricorn Records, writing songs in collaboration with Troy Seals

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Let's All Sing with The Chipmunks
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Let’s All Sing With the Chipmunks is the debut album of Alvin and the Chipmunks. It is an interactive childrens novelty album, the songs on the record are a mixture between cover versions of childrens songs in the public domain and customized original musical material. It contains the A-sides of the Chipmunks first three singles, The Chipmunk Song, Alvins Harmonica and Ragtime Cowboy Joe, the artist credit on the original release was listed as David Seville and the Chipmunks. First pressings of the album were on red vinyl, despite the albums success, it was one of four original Chipmunks albums not included in a 1987-1990 CD reissue program. On April 8,2008, Lets All Sing with the Chipmunks finally was reissued on compact disc. In its original release, the album was successful on the charts peaking at #4 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart. The album would earn a Grammy for Best Recording for Children in 1960. The original issue of the album depicted three realistic looking chipmunks on the cover, with Alvin making a pose like the then-recently deceased Al Jolson, the 2008 compact disc reissue uses the 1961 front cover design along with the original 1959 back cover. All songs would later be adapted as animated musical segments for The Alvin Show, - cover design and actual artwork - Studio Five - animation artwork -

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Sing Again with The Chipmunks
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Sing Again with The Chipmunks is The Chipmunks second album, released by Liberty Records in January 1960. The album follows the format as their first album, and contains the groups fifth and sixth singles—Alvins Orchestra. Since its initial release, Sing Again with The Chipmunks has appeared twice on CD, Sing Again with The Chipmunks was expected to do as well as Lets All Sing with the Chipmunks which peaked at #4 on Billboards Pop Albums Chart. The original issue of the album depicted three realistic looking chipmunks on the cover sharing space with a photo of David Seville. When the album was reissued one year later, a new cover was substituted and this album has Alvins first songwriting credit. The album also marked The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestras recording debut, – cover design and actual artwork – Studio Five – animation artwork –

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Christmas with The Chipmunks
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Christmas with The Chipmunks is the name given to three different Christmas music albums by Alvin and the Chipmunks. These albums were released individually, in 1961,1963 and 2008, Christmas with The Chipmunks, Vol.1 was released in 1961 and contains 12 tracks. The tracks from this and its album, Christmas with The Chipmunks. Both albums have combined and reissued several times since their original release. The most current version available is a 2012 re-release Chipmunks Christmas,2 was released in 1963, and contains 12 tracks. Like Christmas with The Chipmunks, this volume contained 11 traditional holiday songs and one composition by Ross Bagdasarian. The songs in this collection were culled from the two volumes released by Liberty Records. This version was remixed with heavy reverb added to the tracks, a common practice thought to improve tracks recorded with technology decades earlier

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The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits
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The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits is a tribute album of Alvin and the Chipmunks singing the hits of the Beatles. It was originally released in 1964 by Liberty Records on vinyl record, one single was released from the album and a six-song stereo jukebox EP was also issued. On later pressings on the Sunset label and all reissues on vinyl, cassette and compact disc, in the liner notes, John Lennon ends his critique by saying that Alvins wig is falling off again. The stereo mix of the album mimics the stereo mixing of the early Beatles albums, with vocals predominantly in one channel, for his work on the album, engineer Dave Hassinger won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording - Special Or Novel Effects. In a December 1982 Goldmine magazine interview, Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. remembered that his thought it would be a cute idea for a Chipmunk record. When he was in London, he met the Beatles. All songs written by Lennon-McCartney unless otherwise noted, all My Loving Do You Want to Know a Secret She Loves You From Me to You Love Me Do Twist and Shout A Hard Days Night P. S. I Love You I Saw Her Standing There Cant Buy Me Love Please Please Me I Want to Hold Your Hand List of artists who have covered the Beatles

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Chipmunk Punk
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Despite the title of the album, none of the songs listed are considered to be in the style of real punk rock music. It was released on June 15,1980, the album peaked at #34 on the Billboard 200. It was certified gold by the RIAA on October 14,1980, in 2005, it was re-released on CD, although the CD was only available through the official Chipmunks website. The inspiration for the album came when KMET DJ Chuck Taylor played the 12 version of the Blondie song Call Me at double speed and announced, in jest, that it was the Chipmunks latest single. So many requests came for this new Chipmunks release, that Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. Chipmunk Punk essentially marked the rebirth of the Chipmunk franchise. It was the first new Chipmunk release since 1969s The Chipmunks Go To The Movies, Chipmunk creator/producer Ross Bagdasarian Sr. who also provided the voices for the characters, died of a heart attack in 1972, bringing all Chipmunk activity to an abrupt halt. Though this release followed a long dormancy record-wise, the characters had returned to view via Saturday morning repeats of the cartoon series The Alvin Show on NBC in 1979. The album sparked a run of the characters and led to another Saturday morning cartoon series, Alvin and the Chipmunks. Upon this release, the album met mixed critical reviews, most reviews of Chipmunk Punk comment on or criticize the track listing as featuring comparatively little punk rock in favor of more commercial pop rock and new wave music of the era. Lets Go –3,35 Good Girls Dont –3,13 How Do I Make You –2,23 Refugee –3,07 Frustrated –2,54 contains an excerpt from Satisfaction. Production Consultant Doug Oudekerk, Cover Art Janice Karman, Reissue producer Spencer Chrislu, Digital remastering

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Urban Chipmunk
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Urban Chipmunk was the first country album by Alvin and the Chipmunks, released on February 4,1981. The title parodies the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy and it would become the second Gold album for the Chipmunks, their first being Chipmunk Punk. The album managed to chart on Billboard Pop Albums Chart, peaking at #56, the album also managed to chart on Billboards Country Albums, peaking at #23, becoming the groups first album to chart on the country charts

Producer Terry Melcher (left) in the recording studio with Gene Clark (center) and David Crosby (right). Melcher brought in session musicians to play on the "Mr. Tambourine Man" single because he felt that the Byrds hadn't yet gelled musically.

Bob Dylan making an impromptu guest appearance with the Byrds at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.